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Mariah Carey on New Audible Podcast and Not Always Getting Her Credit As a Songwriter: “I Don’t Really Care”

The singer also discusses her remix to Muni Long's TikTok hit "Made for Me," never taking the SATs and being in honors English: "People didn't expect to see me there ... because I was in remedial math."

1s — except her cover of Jackson 5’s “I’ll Be There” — and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the icon talks about her songwriting process, not always getting the credit she deserves as a lyricist, never taking the SATs, the 30th anniversary of her Christmas staple and more. So I guess it was just something where it was like, people weren’t really giving me the credit for what I was doing my whole life, so I was running around talking about it, “As a songwriter.” But no, I really feel like it was an amazing gift to receive. Like “Portrait,” your Caution album also includes “A No No,” which you wrote with Priscilla Renea aka Muni Long.

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